According to Harpers Bazaar, while accepting the final award of the night for Emilia Pérez as Best Musical, the entire cast, including star Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez, came together onstage and encouraged Gascón to speak on behalf of the cast to acknowledge their win.
Karla Sofía Gascón, who is the first openly trans performer to be nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards, gave a poignant speech that brought attention to the trans community.
“The light always wins over darkness,” she said. You can put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you can never take away our soul or our resistance or our identity. I want to say to you, raise your voice and say that I won, I am who I am, not who you want [me to be].”
